Hoang D.B.; T. Lavian; The 4th Workshop on the Internet, Telecommunications and Signal Processing, WITSP 2005, December 19-21, 2005, Sunshine Coast, Australia.
Circuit switching and packet switching have been developed to achieve a statistical gain in sharing transmission bandwidth of a “passive” transport network whereby voice and data are transported end-to-end without content modifications by the network. This paper promotes a radical switching technology that enables the network to transport as well as process/transform its contents. In this paper, I propose “information switching” as a technology for the future generation of the internet that embeds networks with intelligence that is necessary to build truly cognitive information processing systems. By “Cognitive information processing” means that network elements can intelligently and selectively deliver relevant, filtered, pre-processed/information to the desired destinations. Masses of raw data can be processed and primed, on the move to their destination, by the network into a form that is suitable for human interaction and decision. A plausible information-switching architecture that makes use of advances in/formation, computer, and communication technologies is also presented.